Tag: China

Trump administration seeks to end lower shipping rates for China and others

Joe Williams · August 24, 2018 5:27 pm

Beltway Confidential

We’re glad Japan finally has a woman fighter pilot. Now they should get a grown-up military

Tom Rogan · August 24, 2018 5:19 pm

Chinese navy officials stand in front of the ship Daqing on Dec. 7, 2016, in San Diego.

Lawmaker: Chinese navy seeks to encircle US homeland

Joel Gehrke · August 24, 2018 4:56 pm

El Salvador's Foreign Minister Carlos Castaneda, left, and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi walk together for a signing ceremony to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Taiwan broke off diplomatic ties with El Salvador on Tuesday as the Central American country defected to rival Beijing in the latest blow to the self-ruled island China has been trying to isolate on the global stage.

White House: 'Grave concern' about China interfering in Western Hemisphere

Joel Gehrke · August 24, 2018 3:13 pm

This May 14, 2014 photo shows the sign on a GAP store in the Shadyside section of Pittsburgh. On Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014, Gap Inc. is scheduled to report quarterly financial results after the market closes.

Gap joins US retail rally as quarterly sales top $4 billion

Joe Williams · August 23, 2018 8:46 pm

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo a woman walks by a Huawei retail store in Beijing. The Trump administration has extended for 90 more days a limited reprieve on U.S. technology sales to the Chinese technology giant Huawei. The U.S. government blacklisted Huawei in May, deeming it a national security risk so U.S. firms aren't allow to sell the company technology without government approval. But numerous loopholes have been exploited, including by U.S. semiconductor suppliers. And the administration says itâs preparing to grand some exemptions.

Australia bans Chinese tech companies over espionage fears

Joel Gehrke · August 23, 2018 6:05 pm

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping square off on trade. (AP Photo/File)

US officially hits additional $16 billion in Chinese goods with tariffs

Sean Higgins · August 23, 2018 2:35 pm

Alibaba chief claims China’s economy ‘resilient’ amid US trade war

Joe Williams · August 23, 2018 12:52 pm

The Soro Enshi container ship, operated by A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, sails from Yangshan Deep Water Port in this aerial photograph taken in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. China told companies to boost imports of goods from soybeans to seafood and automobiles from countries other than the U.S. after trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies escalated into a tariff war last week.

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Escalating the trade war is a losing move

Erin Dunne · August 23, 2018 10:00 am

A ship to shore crane prepares to load a 40-foot shipping container onto a container ship at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga.

Blaze a better trail on trade with China

Nathan Nascimento · August 23, 2018 4:00 am

U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. TrumpÂ prodded China to offer more at the bargaining table as the two countries prepared for their first major negotiation in more than two months in an effort to head off an all-out trade war.

Even Trump admits: Winning trade war with China would take a long time

Sean Higgins · August 23, 2018 4:00 am

Chinese nationals charged for manufacturing deadly drugs connected to 2 American deaths

Diana Stancy Correll · August 22, 2018 10:38 pm